The Dallas County Schools board of trustees voted for an election for the public to determine whether the countywide agency, which provides busing, technology and other service to schools, remains in use or give district a year to transition to other providers. Early results Tuesday night did not look good for the continuation of the agency.

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Voters on track to axe embattled Dallas County Schools bus provider

Voters appeared to give the embattled Dallas County Schools bus agency the boot on Tuesday, which would disband the transportation provider that's been mired in controversy over driver safety, financial mismanagement and a questionable business deal involving stop-arm cameras.

Returns into late Tuesday night steadily showed voters rejecting the ballot measure that would have saved the agency, according to unofficial results from the county.

School bus service in the eight area districts that rely on DCS will continue for the academic year, but the agency will now wind down operations.

Gail Uhlig has made a profession out of helping people say goodbye to their loves ones. Now, as the director of one of three funeral homes serving the victims of the Sutherland Springs church shooting, she finds herself preparing to bury her own family.

"They were my nieces and nephews," Uhlig, standing in the empty foyer of Franklin Funeral Home in Floresville, told The Dallas Morning News. She didn't want to say anything more about that, but she wanted the families to know they won't be asked to pay a penny to send off their loved ones.

"We're here not to make a profit,” she said. “We're here to serve and provide."

Many are still holding out hope for injured loved ones, now on day three in the hospital. Those who count their families among the 26 victims are still reeling from a massacre that seems unreal and starting the bewildering job of laying their families and friends to rest.

In June, protesters outside the federal courthouse in San Antonio took part in a rally to oppose the Texas "sanctuary cities" bill that aligns with the president's tougher stance on illegal immigration.

A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans asked for clarification on how the law would be implemented and what would constitute violations of the ban on "sanctuary" policies, attorneys for the plaintiffs said. The panel did not make a ruling in the case or lay out a timeline for its decision. Any decision by the panel can be appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who attended the hearing, said the plaintiffs in the case were trying to "undermine" federal immigration law enforcement, according to the Austin American-Statesman.

Photo of the morning

More than two years after buying the vacant West End Marketplace building on the northwest side of downtown, developer Granite Properties is finishing up a more than $77 million conversion of the building into first class office space, renamed Factory Six03. The first tenant — Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas — has already moved in.

Finally,

Jack Ruby has a story he would like to tell you. It's a familiar one, achingly so. But more than likely, you have never heard it told this way — by the man himself, in the words of the nightclub owner, the assassin of the assassin. And, better still, they are in his own handwriting.

Spread across 24 pages seldom seen in public — 24 pages going to auction for only the third time since the 1960s — the old story's more complete, more than just testimony. It's a short story now, scrawled by the Carousel Club's owner in a Dallas jail cell while he awaited the second trial he never lived to see.